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July 08, 2017 14:00

• US tourists missing in Georgia found

  A rescue team has revealed the whereabouts of five US tourists who asked for help in the high-mountainous region of Khevsureti during a downpour. The rescuers left to reach and evacuate them.

July 08, 2017 13:15

• Giyas Ibragimov's mother complains about her son's torture at penal colony

  Activist Giyas Ibragimov was beaten in the Baku penal colony No. 2. This has been reported by his mother Shura Amiraslanova. Officials from the penitentiary service have denied the information about torture.

July 08, 2017 09:16

• ECtHR assigns priority status to Afghan Mukhtarly's case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the case "Afghan Mukhtarly versus Azerbaijan and Georgia" as a priority. This was reported by Archil Chopikashvili, an advocate of the journalist.

July 08, 2017 08:18

• Farmer Oleg Petrov released on bail of 500,000 roubles

  The Caucasian District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has mitigated the pre-trial restriction measure with regard to Oleg Petrov, a Kuban farmer, an activist of the movement "Polite Farmers" and replaced his house arrest with release on bail.

July 08, 2017 05:14

• Activist: desire of Shyky natives to restore clannish village finds no authorities' support

  Local authorities hamper obtaining title documents on patrimonial houses and land plots by natives from the high-mountainous village of Shyky, Cherek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Aishat Sultanova, an activist, has stated.

July 07, 2017 23:04

• South Ossetia initiates international search for Saakashvili

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of South Ossetia has handed over to its Russian counterpart a list of persons to be put on the international wanted list on suspicion of committing war crimes in August 2008. The list includes Mikhail Saakashvili, a former President of Georgia, and 75 Georgian militaries, Anatoly Bibilov, the President of South Ossetia, has stated.

July 07, 2017 20:45

• Tbilisi protesters demand to protect schoolchildren from influence of LGBT community

  About 40 persons took part in the protest action in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, demanding not to introduce lessons of sexual education into school curricular, and not to change textbooks with account of the interests of the LGBT community.

July 07, 2017 18:36

• Astrakhan residents hold four pickets after search of Navalny's office

  Today, residents of Astrakhan have held a series of solo pickets in various parts of the city in connection with a search at the office of Alexei Navalny.

July 07, 2017 18:32

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports three persons wounded by shelling

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported fire attacks on Armenian positions, explaining the bombardments by the need to prevent diversions and treating them as a response measure to the shelling of the village of Alkhanly, where two civilians were killed. Nagorno-Karabakh has reported three wounded members of its Defence Army.

July 07, 2017 17:13

• Georgian authorities deny Turkish teacher's refugee status

  Today, the Ministry for Refugees, Accommodation and Forced Migrants from the Occupied Territories of Georgia has notified the Turkish citizen Mustafa Çabuk about refusal to grant him a refugee status. Soso Baratashvili, an advocate of the Turkish citizen, told the story to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 07, 2017 16:12

• Five US tourists disappear in Georgian mountains

  Georgian rescuers are looking for a group of tourists from the USA in the high-altitude region of Khevsureti.

July 07, 2017 14:30

• "Alternative" announces release of two Astrakhan residents from labour slavery

  The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has organized a check on the message of the Alternative movement about the illegal deprivation of liberty of two residents of Astrakhan.

July 07, 2017 11:07

• Maria Kuchina updates best world result of season

  Maria Lasitskene (Kuchina) won a stage of the "Diamond League" in Switzerland. The track and field athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria conquered the height of 2.06 meters and thus showed the best result of the season in the world.

July 07, 2017 10:15

• Rights defenders see signs of delay in investigation into grenade explosion in Malgobek

  The police have not yet made a decision to institute a criminal case on the fact of an explosion of a grenade in the yard of the house belonging to parents of Magomed Bekbuzarov.

July 07, 2017 08:36

• Police refuse to investigate journalists' statements about attack in Makhachkala

  The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has refused to institute a criminal proceeding on the complaints made by the journalists of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft) about attacks and obstruction of their professional activities.

July 07, 2017 08:04

• In Gukovo, 60 people take part in miners' hunger strike

  In the Rostov Region, the number of miners on protest hunger strike increases every day, and it has already reached 60 people. This has been reported by members of the initiative group. The regional authorities have once again announced that the compensation demanded by workers of the "Kingcoal" group of companies which got bankrupt will be paid only after the sale of the companies' property.

July 07, 2017 04:12

• Relatives report on kidnapping of Vladimir Region resident in Dagestan

  Sharip Zaipullaev, a resident of the town of Kovrov, born in 1980, disappeared in Dagestan, where he came to visit his relatives. From eyewitnesses, his family members have learned that Sharip Zaipullaev was taken away by people in masks who arrived in cars without state registration numbers.

July 07, 2017 03:39

• In Sochi, spouses request Prosecutor's Office to verify legality of policemen's actions on June 12

  Spouses Darya Cherkasskaya and Arthur Volkov-Minullin have appealed to Arthur Shmoilov, Prosecutor for Adler, with a request to conduct a check with regard to law enforcers who detained them during the action of Navalny's supporters on June 12. The spouses claimed that they had been detained unreasonably.

July 07, 2017 01:59

• Ekazhevo village administration starts paying compensations to flood victims

  The authorities have started paying compensation to families of the Ekazhevo village, affected by the flood resulting from heavy rain. This was reported by Khadjimurad Sapraliev, the head of the Ekazhevo village administration.

July 06, 2017 23:49

• "Novaya Gazeta" insists on detailed verification of information about gays in Chechnya